The 39-year-old artist says Leo is a kind troll, balanced by nature because he's surrounded by it in the mountains.

"Coming from Denmark, we don't have nature that is so vast and untouched," he said of the Smokies.

Dambo started sharing his troll construction process last month, telling his Facebook followers on December 6, "during the following week I will show you what building a giant troll in the Smokey Mountains looks like."